blind alley

Example Sentences

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Once outside, we catch a glimpse of tapping heels ducking down a blind alley and it looks like the back of our crowd.

From Salon

As a viewer begins to realize, these blind alleys, pun intended, are going to lead nowhere.

From The Wall Street Journal

Davies said he was just asking people's views, but his predecessor Lord Bourne warned the party against going down a "blind alley".

From BBC

The Welsh Conservative's Senedd leader has been warned against going down a "blind alley" of trying to debate the abolition of the Welsh Parliament.

From BBC

In many cases, the threat of costly legal action can silence critics, leaving the scientific record uncorrected, which risks other researchers wasting funding by chasing down blind alleys.

From Science Magazine